top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-27

US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25919482

12 years ago

411 upvotes – 308 comments

Show HN: Random Street View

http://randomstreetview.com

12 years ago

356 upvotes – 166 comments

Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M

http://recode.net/2014/01/26/exclusive-google-to-buy-artificial-intelligence-startup-deepmind-for-400m/

12 years ago

352 upvotes – 199 comments

Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application

https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter

12 years ago

★ 35.2k JavaScript MIT
277 upvotes – 50 comments

What is really happening in Ukraine

http://www.slideshare.net/NazarBartosik/what-is-really-happening-in-ukraine

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 312 comments

Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-26/tesla-completes-l-a-to-new-york-electric-model-s-drive-chargers.html

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 181 comments

If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/tormail/

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 141 comments

Animated Engines

http://www.animatedengines.com/

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 34 comments

The Great Code Club

http://www.greatcodeclub.com/

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 81 comments

HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations)

http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/#GTFO

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 85 comments

Two "WontFix" vulnerabilities in Facebook Connect

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/two-severe-wontfix-vulnerabilities-in.html??

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 35 comments

Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low

http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2014/01/24/why-are-us-corporate-profits-so-high-because-wages-are-so-low/

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 233 comments

Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition

http://tgceec.tumblr.com/post/74534916370

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 43 comments

King Candy Crushes Developers, The Saga

http://www.gemfruit.com/articles/king-candy-crushes-developers-saga/#

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 43 comments

Fig: Fast, isolated development environments using Docker

http://orchardup.github.io/fig/?

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 44 comments

US and UK spy agencies scoop up private data from 'leaky' phone apps

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 95 comments

The Failures of "Intro to TDD"

http://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2014-01-25-the-failures-of-intro-to-tdd.html

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 84 comments

US Government: Guards may be responsible for half of prison sex assaults

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/26/guards-may-be-responsibleforhalfofprisonrapes.html

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 78 comments

Python on Wheels

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/27/python-on-wheels/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 74 comments

Why do dynamic languages make it more difficult to maintain large codebases?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/221615/why-do-dynamic-languages-make-it-more-difficult-to-maintain-large-codebases/221658#221658

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 209 comments

In the world of war games, Volko Ruhnke has become a hero

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/in-the-world-of-role-playing-war-games-volko-ruhnke-has-become-a-hero/2014/01/10/a56ac8d6-48be-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 22 comments

Startups that have bootstrapped their way to profitability

http://beatrixapp.com/blog/12-amazing-bootstrapped-companies.html

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 63 comments

MIT OpenCourseWare Bookshelf

http://mitopencourseware.wordpress.com/ocw-bookshelf/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 4 comments

An Estonian shares his country's strategy for navigating the digital world

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/lessons-from-the-worlds-most-tech-savvy-government/283341/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

Take Buffett's Billion

http://www.takebuffettsbillion.com/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 123 comments

Nginx Patch: SPDY/3.1 protocol implementation

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2014-January/004890.html

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 28 comments

Floorplan Light Switches

http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/floorplan_light_swit.html

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 68 comments

The craziest bug you never heard about from 2008: A Linux threading regression

http://timetobleed.com/digging-out-the-craziest-bug-you-never-heard-about-from-2008-a-linux-threading-regression/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

Timothy Hart, Rest in Peace

http://blog.fogus.me/2014/01/27/timothy-hart-rest-in-peace/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

iPad onscreen keyboard designed for LaTeX [video]

https://www.texpadapp.com/blog/ios-v1.6.3-teaser

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 33 comments

Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/01/retrieving-thumbnails/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Why isn't People-Centric UI Design taking off?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhyIsntPeopleCentricUIDesignTakingOff.aspx

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 75 comments

Sky parental control system blocks code.jquery.com

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6261-sky-parental-controls-break-jquery-website.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 67 comments

Druid – Distributed, real-time, analytical data store

http://druid.io/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 9 comments

Manually Creating an ELF Executable

http://robinhoksbergen.com/papers/howto_elf.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

Dear Google Recruiting...

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-01-27-dear-google-recruiting.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 116 comments

Why “Simple” Websites Are Scientifically Superior

http://soshitech.com/2014/01/27/why-simple-websites-are-scientifically-superior/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

UrtheCast’s Ultra HD video camera installed on the ISS [video]

http://www.urthecast.com/spacewalk

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

The Adulteration of Italian Olive Oil

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/24/opinion/food-chains-extra-virgin-suicide.html?_r=0

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 69 comments

Android sniffing using tcpdump

https://dornea.nu/blog/2014/01/24h-android-sniffing-using-tcpdump

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/spy-agencies-scour-phone-apps-for-personal-data.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

Apple Reports First Quarter Results

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/01/27Apple-Reports-First-Quarter-Results.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 97 comments

Android++: Native development and debugging extension for Visual Studio

http://android-plus-plus.com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Beautify-with-words unminifies JS with unique words for variable names

https://github.com/zertosh/beautify-with-words

12 years ago

★ 322 JavaScript MIT
67 upvotes – 34 comments

Government to Allow Companies to Disclose More Data on Surveillance Requests

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/business/government-to-allow-technology-companies-to-disclose-more-data-on-surveillance-requests.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

What type of Machine is the C Preprocessor?

http://theorangeduck.com/page/what-type-machine-c-preprocessor

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

How to Make Time for Your Side Project

http://www.startupclarity.com/blog/make-time-side-project/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

http://yumhacker.com/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

Be a startup Metric King

http://klinger.io/post/72440546722/a-primer-on-startup-metrics-which-analytics-tool-to

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments
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